From kde-devel  Thu Jul 29 14:50:28 1999
From: Kurt Granroth <kurt_granroth () email ! mot ! com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 14:50:28 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KDE 1.2-Preview: eyecandy.png
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Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Hmm, what does Pentium mean in english? I doubt you can trademark
> "processor"

"Pentium" doesn't mean anything in any language.  It is a word that was
specially made-up for that product.  I believe that Intel spent several
million dollars in getting some firm to think up that word.

It's designed to give you a "feeling".  The "pent" part kind of sounds like
Latin for 5 (pentagram, pentathalon, etc) to clue people that it was the
"fifth" generation processor (i586).  The "ium" part was designed to make
it sound "elemental" (titanium, cadmium, etc).

Hmm.. I think I got off-topic, there :-)
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